| "And pluck till time and times are done | | | | divination with apples. A great many of them, of |
| the silver apples of the moon | | | | course, are associated with love and |
| the golden apples of the sun." | | | | relationships.Apples were once considered to be the |
| William Butler YeatsWe have all heard and used the | | | | food of the gods - if you cut an apple in half |
| expression "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." | | | | crosswise the centre is revealed as a five pointed |
| This expression is based on a very old superstition and | | | | star. Merlin carried the orchard of Avalon, the magical |
| is one of many associated with apples. I am quite sure | | | | "Apple-Land" or "Isle of Apples" which received the |
| that you have all held an apple in one hand and twisted | | | | dying King Arthur, with him on all his travels. The |
| the stem while reciting the alphabet to ascertain the | | | | ignorant were not to eat of this fruit because the apple |
| initial of that "special someone" - the apple of our eye. I | | | | contained a Pythagorean Pentagram - cut widthways |
| am equally as certain we have all gotten happy feet | | | | secrets were revealed in the shape of its pips.An |
| and sang along with the Andrew's Sisters "Don't Sit | | | | apple of gold was thrown into a wedding banquet for |
| Under the Apple Tree With Anyone Else But Me". In | | | | Peleus and Thetis (parents of Achilles) which was |
| "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, we are | | | | attended by many of of the gods and goddesses. The |
| moved and touched by the gracious and dignified | | | | apple was thrown by Eris, the Goddess of Discord |
| austerity of Hester Prynne's declaration "A is for | | | | and a daughter of Night. She had been snubbed and |
| Apple." There is a very long tradition of prediction and | | | | not invited because she was such a troublemaker. |